Chapter 45: The Storm at the Level
Although the small lord of Dragon Ruins has been the largest buyer of the Dragon Descending Branch of the Qige Chamber of Commerce in recent years, the guards of the Chamber of Commerce, who are accustomed to traveling unhindered in the volcanic plains, do not take Dragon Ruins seriously. Their primary responsibility is to escort the cargo safely to its destination, as long as it is on the lookout for daring bandits and bandits on the way, or the occasional powerful monster that has gone out to forage for food and has lost its way.
This time, the escort team of the Chamber of Commerce in charge of escorting a total of 100 people, the captain Ariel is a fifth-level warrior, the two deputy captains are also fourth-level warriors, and the rest of the team members are mostly second-level and third-level warriors. This escort team is known for its strong fighting style, and is good at forming shield formations to resist magic, and there are no magicians in the team, so it is obvious that they have super confidence in the team's combat effectiveness.
Because their hundred-person escort team is the most powerful escort team of the Qiger Chamber of Commerce in Dulong City.
Ariel was so furious that he slashed four male slave guards at the Dragon Ruin level, and he was still angry, riding on a snow-white iron horse, cursing in front of the level.
One hundred and fifty wagons, divided into three teams, like three long dragons.
The four Dragonruin guards who were slain by Ariel were the outposts that Andal had placed at the entrance. In Andal's mind, the master's order was as big as the sky, although he knew that this convoy was transported by the Zig Chamber of Commerce to the Dragon Ruins, he felt that he still had to follow the master's rules, that is, he had to obtain the master's consent before letting them pass the checkpoint.
Therefore, Andal asked the four outpost "sergeants" to inform the caravan escort, and said that they would wait for the lord to give the order to release the caravan before opening the checkpoint, and ask the caravan to rest in place for a while.
Ali's anger began with the sign at the intersection.
He rode at the front of the line, and was the first to see the sign next to the four outpost sergeants, who were stopped by four sergeants' dressed as slaves, but Ariel did not attack immediately. What really made him laugh wildly, and it was the contents of the billboard that sparked a nameless fire.
Andal's ability to execute was unquestionable, and he consulted Old Ford about Monyan's exact words before finalizing the contents of the billboard.
"Those who come stop, this place is a dragon ruin, a private territory, and you can't enter without permission. Pass the level for 10 gold coins per person. ”
Ariel could barely hold back his laughter, in his mind the current lord of Dragonruin (he rightfully thought of it as a proxy lord, and private territory was a common trick of the nobility to deceive the countrymen. It was just a pitiful amount of gold coins that his father had saved, trying to gain a foothold in Longxu and develop, and this kind of one-time spending money on all kinds of supplies was completely in line with the noble son's reckless behavior, and he felt ridiculous to the point when he saw this sign full of aristocratic corruption.
However, the four "guards" of the dragon ruins, who followed Andal's orders and were stubbornly guarding the intersection, lined up impartially and stopped in front of his horse's head.
Ariel frowned, and shouted: "You damn stinky slaves, blind? Don't you see that this is the convoy of the Qige Chamber of Commerce, is it to deliver goods to your master?
In Ariel's memory, it seemed as if it was the first time he had seen a slave wearing second-class warrior armor, holding a weapon worth a hundred gold, and with a dragon slave mark on his forehead. Immediately, the lords here were divided into the ranks of the noble sons who were playing nonsense.
But to Ariel's great surprise, the four Dragon Ruins guards heard his scolding, but they didn't have the slightest intention of getting out of the way.
One of them had the audacity to say loudly, "Our captain has an order, and we need the permission of our master to let you go." Please take a break here!"
Coax!
The group of knightly guards behind Ariel burst into laughter as if they had heard the funniest joke in the world.
Ariel also laughed wildly, but then an inexplicable anger could no longer be suppressed, and the moment the laughter stopped abruptly, an extremely cruel sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, and a sentence popped out from between his teeth: "Look for death!"
The sword light suddenly shone like a rainbow, but it was Ariel who pulled out the long sword at his waist, and in the blink of an eye, he stabbed out four swords, not touching the armor of the four dragon ruin guards, but directly piercing their throats.
The four dragon ruin guards didn't understand what was going on until they died, and they didn't even finish the action of reaching out to cover their necks, they fell to the ground with a puff, and the red blood flowing from their throats immediately dyed the bluestone road in front of the checkpoint red.
Andal's pupils at the checkpoint contracted suddenly, and he immediately ordered the sergeants to guard the checkpoint, and he quickly mounted his fast horse and ran back to the wooden house of Longxu Fort to find Monyan.
Andal didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, he felt that since his master trusted him and asked him to lead a hundred people to guard the checkpoint, he should carry out his master's orders to the letter, which is what he, a slave (slave), should do.
It wasn't until he was slapped on the back of the head by Old Ford that he suddenly came to his senses, what he offended was the Qige Chamber of Commerce in the famous Volcanic Plains, and the power of the Qige Chamber of Commerce was so great that ordinary viscounts and earls didn't dare to provoke it, wouldn't it bring monstrous trouble to the master by doing so.
However, his mind could not turn for a while, and he stood there dumbfounded, a little at a loss.
In the face of Meng Yang's questioning, Andal finally calmed down and recounted the conflict that happened in front of the checkpoint in a few words.
Meng Yang's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "Andal, you didn't do anything wrong in this matter. Remember, I'll do things the way I do today! I'll take a look. ”
Meng Yang turned back into the house, took off the autumn water hanging on the wooden wall, and with a whistle called the iron horse blessed with magic items, turned over and galloped away in the direction of the checkpoint.
Andal hurried to his horse and followed, but old Ford shook his head and went about his work.
Ruoyi, in another wooden house, quietly floated out and used the levitation technique to escape through the wheat field in the direction of the level.
In front of the checkpoint, Ariel shook the blood-dripping sword in his hand and yelled at the guards at the checkpoint: "Why don't you hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu? Damn, you dare to let us eat here and shut up! Brothers, smash this sign for me!"
A group of chamber guards swarmed up, fists and kicks, and smashed the wooden board sign that Andal had just erected a few days ago, almost to pieces.
Ariel was furious: "Damn, Lao Tzu has been in a hurry for seven or eight days, eating dust all the way to get here, and he dares to let us wait here stupidly for no reason? Brothers, come forward with me, I want to see if the level of this projectile land is impregnable!"
Ariel rode his horse first, followed closely by a hundred guards and the convoy.
Pitiful, the four dragon ruin guards who lost their lives, their bodies still lying in the middle of the road, were crushed into meat sauce by the heavy carriage, and they were miserable.
Although they wore exquisite armor, the weight of each carriage was above seven or eight thousand catties, and more than a hundred carriages passed through, and the result could be imagined.
Ariel arrived in front of the huge heavy iron gate of the level, pointed his long sword at the dragon ruin guard on the card and roared: "Lao Tzu will give you one last chance now, within ten breaths, open the gate, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite, we are not responsible for what we shattered!"
Seeing the innocent and tragic death of his companions, all of them dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but they did not dare to open the door and go out to retrieve the corpses, so they had to watch them turn into pulp under the horseshoe wheels, and they were all filled with righteous indignation and resentment to the extreme.
Although they were all slaves, since they came to the Dragon Ruins, the lord has treated them very well, never scolded and whipped them for no reason, and even let them eat and live with those common craftsmen, regardless of whether they are high or low. They all felt that Dragon Ruins was different from the rest of the Empire, and if they had to say why, they would definitely say that it gave them a sense of "home".
For slaves, life and death are not up to them, and life is cheaper than grass mustard, but they are also human beings, with the same flesh and blood, thoughts and emotions, and they can naturally distinguish between good and bad and right and wrong. The lord is kind and generous, and they can only repay the lord by working harder.
Subconsciously, this group of dragon ruin guards, who were only physically stronger than ordinary slaves, regarded guarding the level as a supreme honor and extremely lucky. Because, since ancient times, none of the slaves of the empire wore armor and carried weapons, let alone acted like sergeants.
Hearing the roar of Ariel at the bottom of the level, a clever Dragon Ruin guard quietly made a gesture, and about sixty or seventy dragon ruin guards quietly put down their weapons, picked up the iron bow, wound the iron arrows, and aimed at the caravan guards below from the battlement.
They knew who the knights downstairs were, and they knew that compared to those people, they were like ants to elephants, even if they shot iron arrows, I am afraid it would be difficult to hurt those powerful warriors, but they were ready to fight, and before receiving the order of their master, they decided to stay here, even if they shed the last drop of blood to fight to the last person, it is a more glorious thing to die on the guard's level.
Where did Ariel know this under the level, his face became more and more gloomy, he hissed and counted, and in a blink of an eye, he had counted to "eight", he secretly made a gesture to the people behind him, and the group of caravan guards began to sit on horseback and slowly urge the fighting spirit.
As soon as Ariel counted to ten, if the gate was not opened, the guards would rush forward and break through the great iron gate with a thunderbolt.
"Nine!"
The guards understood Captain Ariel's intentions, not really to attack this small level, but to teach the Dragons a hard lesson. In this way, we must let the people of Longxu know what the Qige Chamber of Commerce is, and let them know that in front of the powerful caravan guards, a mere checkpoint is a tofu scum that is vulnerable.
"Ten!"
Just as Ariel shouted out ten, the heavy big iron door suddenly creaked and slowly opened from the inside out, and Ariel couldn't help but smile, "These damn slaves, don't give them a little cruelty, they don't know how to be afraid, hahahaha!"
Suddenly, the unbridled laughter of Ariel and the group of knight guards behind him came to an abrupt end, because after the iron door opened, a knight came out of the level.
Everyone's eyes seemed to suddenly flicker, and Ariel was the first to bear the brunt, and he felt a strong chill rushing over his face, and he involuntarily retreated several steps with the man and the horse, and his pupils also shrank at this moment.
"A fifth-level warrior? How is it possible? There is a fifth-level warrior in just a small place?"
One of the caravan guards screamed.
Ariel watched as the young fifth-level warrior rode out of the gate until he stood three meters in front of his horse, and did not speak, but swept his knife-like eyes over him and the knights behind him.
"Who are you? What do you want to do? Tell you, we are the escort team of the Dulong Branch of the Qige Chamber of Commerce, and we were ordered by the president to deliver the goods he ordered to the Lord of Longxu, get acquainted, quickly get out of the way for me!"
Ariel froze and shouted at the visitor.
The person who came was Meng Yang, who hurried over after receiving the news.
Meng Yang's gaze was fixed on Ariel's face, and the fluorescent flashing scimitar in his hand pointed at Ariel, and asked coldly: "Your Excellency is so majestic! I can't imagine that the world-famous Qige Chamber of Commerce has come out of people like you who don't understand the rules and are arrogant! You have committed a heinous crime and don't even know it, and you still dare to continue to shout here, you really don't even know how to write the word dead, right?"
Ariel was taken aback, and instead of being angry, he smiled and said, "Who the hell is Your Excellency? Don't think that because you are a fifth-level warrior, you are qualified to point fingers here. The Ziggy Chamber of Commerce, and our elite escort team, are by no means for people like you to judge at will. What kind of bullshit signs, that's the real arrogance! What bullshit guards, just a few cheap slaves, dare to be disrespectful to the uncle, kill and kill, what are you going to do?"
Meng Yang continued to sneer: "According to the law of the White Dragon, anyone who trespasses on private territory will be punished with twenty rods at the least, and stripped of his civil status and reduced to slavery. Don't say that you're a small caravan escort captain, even if the prince is here, you don't dare to say such big words, right? You broke my billboard, killed my guards, and now you're trying to break through the checkpoint, let's say, don't you Qige Chamber of Commerce want to do this business or what?"
Ariel's face changed drastically, and he asked in a panic, "Could it be that you are the lord here?"
"Humph!"
Meng Yang snorted coldly, raised his sword eyebrows, pointed at Ariel and roared loudly: "Now, I will also give you one last chance, the person who destroyed my sign, stand aside, the one who killed my dragon ruin guard stands aside, and those who do not participate will stay in place!"
With this loud roar, Meng Yang condensed enough spiritual power, like a thunderbolt, and shook for a long time in front of the level.
The dragon ruin guards on the checkpoint and inside the gate were all in high spirits, and they felt that their master was really a hero, so majestic!
Ariel's heart flashed with thoughts, and a smile instantly appeared on his face,